(a) All school district superintendents and county office of education superintendents who operate educational programs are required to submit to the California Department of Education safe school assessment reports that contain specific numerical data on the incidents of crime, including hate crimes or hate motivated incidents, occurring on their respective school campuses. Each school district or county office of education shall utilize the following procedure to report crime and hate motivated incident data from school or program sites to the respective school district or county office of education superintendent, and to the California Department of Education:
(1) Each administrator of a school site or county office of education program, or designee, shall complete a California Safe Schools Assessment School Crime and Incident Reporting Form (July 1, 2001) for each incident of crime, including hate crime or hate motivated incidents. The information on the form includes, but is not limited to, identification of the crime or hate motivated incident, victim characteristics, suspect characteristics, if known at the time of the incident, and the actual or estimated dollar loss to the school district or county office of education resulting from a criminal act directed against property of the school district or county office of education. The site or program administrator shall use the crime and hate motivated incident classification definitions as specified above in Section 700(b) and (d) and the reporting guidelines as specified below in Section 702(a) to determine if a crime or an incident is reportable for the purposes of the Safe Schools Assessment Program.
(2) The site or program administrator, or designee, shall retain on file for not less than three years the individual reports of crimes and hate moviated incidents on which the aggregate data is based, and any other required documentation, as specified below in Section 702(b).
(3) Each month the data regarding reportable school crimes and hate motivated incidents shall be reported to the designated person at the respective school district or county office of education.
(4) Any school district that has its own police department may have the chief of its police force or other administrator of the police department prepare the California Safe Schools Assessment School Crime and Incident Reporting Form (July 1, 2001) for its schools and submit the aggregated data to the California Department of Education.
(5) On or before February 1 and August 1 of each year, the respective school district or county office of education superintendent, or designee, shall aggregate the school crime and hate motivated incident data reported by schools or programs within their jurisdiction and report the aggregated data to the California Department of Education.
(6) Beginning February 1, 1997 and thereafter, if a school district or county office of education chooses to submit its data to the California Department of Education in an electronic format, it must do so in a format designated by the California Department of Education. For the purposes of this section, an electronic format includes, computer disk, modem transfer, or other electronic means.
(b) Reportable crimes and hate motivated incidents occurring at a school in the jurisdiction of another school district or county office of education shall be reported by the education agency in which the crime or hate motivated incident occurred.
Authority cited:
Education Code 33031
Penal Code 628.1
Reference:
Education Code 48902
Penal Code 628-628.6
(Amended by Register 2001, No. 31.)